Monday, May 31, 2004

Foxfire! 8.0 Build 335 - Relationship Update 

Beta period has been expired and a fix has been made when users correct the outer joins by clicking the Related Data button in Filters.

# posted by Andrew MacNeill @ 10:42 AM
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004


See? This is the new General dialog with the checkbox for displaying the comments instead of the pure drop-down approach.

# posted by Andrew MacNeill @ 1:16 PM
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Foxfire! Build 334: Minor Cosmetic Updates 

Foxfire! Build 334 (Refresh Only)
 
Primarily cosmetic updates and bug fixes.
Change to General screen to make it easier for comments to be displayed.

# posted by Andrew MacNeill @ 6:49 AM
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Saturday, May 22, 2004

Build 333: Refresh Only Fixes cosmetics and batch processing 

Run a Verify System Files after installing the update.
 
Updated group options dialog labels.
Fixed bug when modifying comments.
Revised labels on group options dialog.
Support for Preference File support of Advanced Preview (MERE). This is located in the Misc screen of Preferences.

Support for dropping requests into Export/Batch set.
Cosmetic changes to batch run dialog.
Moved Batch menu to File menu and shortcut
Fixed problem where requests were disappearing when being dropped onto ListBox
Moved where New Data Item button appears.
Fix for resizing sort windows

# posted by Andrew MacNeill @ 7:17 AM
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Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Build 332 - Refresh Only 

Minor cosmetic changes.

Font caption now shows the font as defined in the style definition
Removed Refresh right-click menu
Re-enabling multi-select for sorts.
Changed caption for Req Folders in Request Manager to simply say Folders.

Added support for hitting Del and Insert in Selected List boxes in Data Items and Sort.

Fix for displaying output grids. If the items don't require a scrollbar, it won't show. There are still some visual glitches here being worked on.


Fixed another problem when changing file name.


# posted by Andrew MacNeill @ 5:29 AM
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Monday, May 10, 2004

Build 330 - Refresh Only 

Build 330 - Minor cosmetic changes noted below.

The full functionality of add new data item is still being tested so pass along any areas there.

Change to order of right-click menu in Data Item tab.

Fixed problem when clicking on detail item that re-syncs' the workbench screen.

Changed way that request sizes are validated. You should be able to create requests up to 15 chars long now.
Ensured that spaces aren't in request name by automatically putting in _

Currently selected request is automatically added to Export list when you right-click and choose Export.

Fixed Right-click menu on Column Headers to not error out and sort options now work properly.

Fix in New Expression Builder when clicking on Round button.
Fix in Expression Builder when working with new items and filling in default values for New Data Items.

 


# posted by Andrew MacNeill @ 5:59 AM
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Saturday, May 08, 2004

Build 329: Full & Refresh Posted 

Note: If you only download the Refresh, you may get some errors when
starting up. Run the Verify Files option in the Administrator to add the new
RDI_GROUP field to your data items.

Disabling unavailable options for different output choices.
Added Sort and Group options to right-click menu on Sort tab.
Fixes for different types of output
Support for Importing FRX files now directly in Import New File option.
Fix for saving cross-tabs that created an error when generating.
More fixes for cross-tabs - cross tabs should work fine now.
Fixes in Filter and Sort screens to improve performance with large data
sets.
Changes to introduce new RDI_GROUP field into data items.
Be sure to run either a verify files or a new install when installing.
Cleaned up errors when connecting to SQL Data during upgrade process.
Build 329 now only looks at the rdi_group field to show the data item
grouping option.


# posted by Andrew MacNeill @ 12:20 PM
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New Data Group Field 

In Foxfire! 6.0x, we introduced the concept of Data Grouping using the Misc field. This made it easier for users to logically group their data and display it to their end-users.
 
In Foxfire! 8.0, a new field in the data item table exists called rdi_group, or simply Data group in the data item editor.
 
We'll be making it easier for developers to fill in this field with some tools after 8.0 is released but right now, when you update from an older set, you will be prompted to move anything that is in rdi_misc into rdi_group. Hopefully this should make it easier.
 

# posted by Andrew MacNeill @ 12:19 PM
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Saturday, May 01, 2004

Build 327 Posted: (Refresh Only) Changes Noted Below 

I've only posted the Refresh (http://www.foxfirereporting.com/livedesign/ff80.zip ) because there will be more changes this weekend that will update the full install.
 
Changes noted here:

Revamped way of accessing entire preference data items for speed reasons
Fixed problem when copying files during Existing installation Upgrade.
Fixed problems that occur when upgrading and indexing files

Preference picker now defaults to the first preference if one is not selected

The Relationship Filter drop-down now sizes automatically to the number of valid relationships in the list.

Added Add to list and remove to Data Item list box context menus.

Added drag/drop support for removing items from data item list.

Added Hide/Show to right-click on selected option

Single-clicking on objects in the Preview area now activates the appropriate tab in both the Designer and the Workbench window.

Removed Mind's Eye option from individual reports. THe property is still present in the Request file (RQ_MERE) but it will be controlled by a preference setting, currently undefined.

Fix for double-clicking group footer to display group options.


# posted by Andrew MacNeill @ 7:16 AM
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Logic for the way Data Items are shown in the Filter Editor 

Someone asked a question about the reasoning behind data items being shown in the Filter tab.
 
Here is the logic:
 
The Data item combo in the Filter list is broken into three groups.
 
The First Group shows Data Items currently selected in the report. This way, if you are building a report that shows Cars Make and Model, you can easily find them in the Filter list.
 
The second group shows data Items directly related to items shown in report. For example, If you put cars make into your report, then all unselected data items from cars will show up in the second group. This was introduced in Foxfire! 6.02 as a way to make it easier to manage large data item sets. For example, if you have 500 data items in your system, and the user builds a report with data items starting with the letter W, you don't want them to scroll all the way back down to the "W"s each time to make a request. It streamlines the filter building process and makes it much more efficient.
 
The third group shows all other data items in their proper sorting order.
 
 

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